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Photoprint dirty from handling & use.; Printed on back of stereocard: "No. 1247. Bird's Eye View of Cripple Creek, Colorado. About 46 miles by railroad from Colorado Springs, just inside the eastern edge of this wonderful mountain region, at an elevation of 9,800 feet, 3,600 feet higher than Colorado Springs, lies Cripple Creek, the most noted mining camp of the day. The trip to Cripple Creek affords a singular attractiveness in its views of scenery and the engineering achievements connected with the construction of the railway. It winds around the rim of the canons curving in astonishing loops and sudden turns, and passing through nine tunnels. The train ascends along the edge of North Cheyenne Canon to Point Sublime, affording five views of the canon, Colorado Springs, Crescent Lake and the beautiful Silver Cascade Falls. Then it passes over to South Cheyenne Canon with its wonderful falls, descending 500 feet in seven leaps to Summit, where the view is magnificent. Mountain streams full of trout are seen here on all sides. At Clyde, we get a glimpse of Cathedral Park with fantastic rock formations and a cavern of perpetual ice, and then we rapidly descend to Cripple Creek, which was a cattle ranch in 1891 and produces now up to $22,000,000.00 in gold annually.; Title from printed label on front edge of colored stereograph; penciled between stereoscopic views: 43.; R7100008326

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